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The Christian-man's calling: or, A treatise of making religion ones business. Wherein the nature…
The Christian-man's calling: or, A treatise of making religion ones business. Wherein the nature and necessity of it is discovered. : As also the Christian directed how he may perform it in [brace] religious duties, natural actions, his particular vocation, his family directions, and his own recreations. / By George Swinnock ...
London: printed for T.P., 1662
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
If the crime be crimson, and scandalous, or repeated, or justified, rebuke sharply; hard knots must have strong and sharp wedges: Others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire, Jude v. 23. In such a case, weak physic will only stir, not remove the disease, and thereby leave the Patient in a worse condition then it found him. Nettles touched gently, sting the more: A prick with a rapier is more dangerous sometimes then a wound with a sword, because the latter wideneth the orifice, and thereby maketh the place more open to the plaster which should heal it. It is much better for them to be preserved in brine and pickle, then to rot in flesh-pleasing and fondness. Kindness, and bearing with such in thy family, is like the kiss of Judas to Christ, a betraying them; and like Joabs salutation to Abner, destroying and killing them.
If the crime be crimsom, and scandalous, or repeated, or justified, rebuke sharply; hard knots must have strong and sharp wedges: Others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire, Jude v. 23. In such a case, weak physick will onely stir, not remove the disease, and thereby leave the Patient in a worse condition then it found him. Nettles touched gently, sting the more: A prick with a rapier is more dangerous sometimes then a wound with a sword, because the latter wideneth the orifice, and thereby maketh the place more open to the plaister which should heal it. It is much better for them to be preserved in brine and pickle, then to rot in flesh-pleasing and fondness. Kindeness, and bearing with such in thy family, is like the kiss of Judas to Christ, a betraying them; and like Joabs salutation to Abner, destroying and killing them.
Be sure therefore not to bear with any under thy charge in sin: Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. He is a drone unserviceable to his house, his hive, who hath lost this sting of reproof. Pious Asa would not suffer sin in his own Mother: Asa removed his mother Maachah from being Queen, because she made an Idol in a grove; and Asa cut down her Idol, and stamped it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron,